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Providence, Brown University Press, 1975. Hard Cover. xx, 235 p.; 26.5 cm. All forty-eight Blathwayt maps, which form what has been called the first atlas of the British Empire, are discussed in the Commentary. Assembled by English colonial administrators, for whom they were working tools, these maps show the area of English overseas colonial and commercial interest, especially in the Western Hemisphere, in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Of the forty-eight maps, thirteen are manuscripts... thirty-five are printed. A number are the earliest maps of certain English colonies. Maps of New Jersey, Long Island, Bermuda, are among the important ones discussed. Stock#22532.Vg / dj vg.

Roma: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1997, c1996. Hard Cover. 216 pages, 23 plates (some folding), many illus. (chiefly color); 32 cm. Translated into English by Hann Heck and Luciano F. Farina. Volume XII of Nuova Raccolta Colombiana (English). Translation of: La tradizione cartografica genovese e Cristoforo Colombo. At head of title: Ministry of Cultural and Environmental Assets. National Commission for the Celebration of the Quincentennial of the Discovery of America. Bibliography, pages 162-204. Tan cartographic boards, new from publisher; gift quality. stock#Mart012 [101145a].

Includes A Collection of Globes (lots 400-445); a Celestial Atlas; Scientific Instruments (lots 447455; Houdon's L'écorché in bronze; Books & Manuscripts (lots 457-485); Aviation (lots 486-511); Space History (lots 512-592); Technology (lots593-658)recorders, cipher machines, computers, robots). 258 lots, index; color illustrations; glossy paper covers; fine. Stock#ofc0493.

Washington, DC, G.P.O., 1909-1920; reprint Martino 1995. "...important catalog of an outstanding collection which includes many rare and early atlases" (Sheehy CL 286). Most individual maps contained in the atlases are enumerated and named; well over one hundred thousand individual maps are listed. Complete collations accompany valuable notes and annotations. Volumes 5-9 of this work have been completed by Clara LeGear (which see). Hard Cover. four octavo volumes, 3650 pages; 22 cm. New from publisher; fine in green binder's cloth. Stock#34952x/h.

London, Dent / NY, Dutton; Everyman's Library. Hard Cover. xiv, 231 p., index, Gazetteer, color maps. Includes G. C. Brooke, A Brief Survey of the Coinage of North and South America, pp. 99-114 with 8 plates; Maps and Plans of Notable Battles and Districts connected with Famous Authors and their Books, pp. 117-135. Red cloth; good+. Stock#24783.

Buenos Aires, Dirección de Ferro Carriles Nacionales, 1892. Color topographical printed map in four parts of eighteen sections each, backed with linen. Scale: 1: 1,000,000. The map encompasses approximately 41° South latitude to approx. 20° S. latitude, and approx. 53° West longitude to a little beyond 73° W. latitude. This includes Chile along its entire western border, in some cases to the Pacific, and parts of Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Railroad lines are shown as far south as Bahía Nueva in Chubut on the east coast and a bit inland from Valdivia (Chile) in the west; in the north Asunción is the farthest inland reach, and both completed and projected sections of the Transandine (Valparaiso to Buenos Aires) line are shown (the last tunnel was completed in 1909). Development of railways in the Argentine dates from 1857 and was mostly supported by private companies largely controlled in England, about 15% being owned and operated by the government. Produced following an investment… Read More

NY, Barnes & Noble, 1999. Hard Cover. Atlas, 160 p., illus. (some color), color maps; 33 cm. Note: "published... by arrangement with Michael Friedman Publishing Group, Inc." -- t.p. verso. An atlas of the Civil War, including many manuscript maps by Jedidiah Hotchkiss (1828–1899) and other early Union maps, arranged to provide a history of the war. Many early photographs and modern paintings. Includes maps on endsheets. ISBN (10): 0760718709. Stock#L-335. Vg, as new / dj vg.

New York : Simon & Schuster, c1987. Soft Cover. 1 atlas (159 p.) : col. illus., col. maps ; 24.5 cm. "A Touchstone book." "A Pluto project." "Maps and graphics copyright 1987 Swanston Publishing Limited"--Verso t.p. Maps used a graphs to illustrate a variety of political, economic and social problems throughout the world of 1987 Stock# 43,633. Vg/ paper.

Firenze, 1755; facsimile reprint Ithaca, N.Y., Historic Urban Plans, 1969. Printed facsimile map; 51 x 68 cm. "This is number 247 [and 248] of an edition limited to 500 copies" showing Florence in 1755. Black & white cover-stock paper; new from publisher. Stock#Flat0022x/h.

Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press for Newberry Library, 1971. Hard Cover. xvii, 185, [4] p., illus., facsimiles, maps; 28 cm. Series: Studies in the History of Discoveries. The conference was held in 1966, the year after the controversial publication of the book on the map. It took 5 years to get money to publish these papers. The discussions here are still valid. ISBN(10): 0226873943. Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#L422.

A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier [1667] / facsimile Ithaca, NY, Historic Urban Plans, 1966. Printed facsimile map; 58 x 80 cm. Orientation: east at top. The Eternal City of the late Renaissance is fully portrayed on this large, highly decorative and beautifully detailed plan showing the city at the death of Pope Alexander VII.  The reproduction is reduced one-tenth from the original size. For the original see Amato Pietro Frutaz, Piante de Roma, (Roma, 1962) Text 1: 218-219; Tav. 349. stock#Flat0020. Vg.

series: University of Washington Publications in Language and Literature. Volume 9, November 1935. Reprinted 1964? by Maurice Martino in an edition of 350 copies. Chapter headings: (vol. 1) Collections, Circumnavigations, General Travels and Descriptions, Continental Europe, West Europe, North Europe, East Europe, Near East, Central Asia, East Indies, Far East, Siberia, Africa; (vol. 2) Northwest Passage, Northeast Passage, Arctic Regions, North Pacific, North America, West Indies, Mexico, Central America, South America, South Seas, Australia; Directions for Travellers, Geography, Navigation, Maps and Atlases, Military Expeditions, Naval Expeditions; Adventures, Disasters, Shipwrecks; Fictitious Voyages and Travels, General Reference, Bibliographies; Volume Three is devoted entirely to Great Britain "Including Tours, Descriptions, Towns, Histories and Antiquities, Surveys, Ancient and Present State, Gardening, etc.". Three volumes (404; 591; 732 pages); maroon binder's cloth; as new. Stock#ofc0130.

Yale UP [Third printing, December 1965]. Hard Cover. xii, [1] p., V facsimile plates, 291 p., indexes, maps & charts (some folding); 30 cm. Contents include The Manuscript: History and Description, by Thomas E. Marston; Facsimiles of the Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation; The Tartar Relation Edited, with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, by George D. Painter; The Vinland Map by R. A. Skelton; The Tartar Relation and the Vinland Map: An Interpretation, by George D. Painter; and a bibliography. Although it was subsequently established that the ink used to draw the map could not have been made before 1920, the ink in the other two works, and the parchment and paper in all three works, were found to date from about 1440, as had been previously believed. Stock# 39,105. Vg, lightly mottled red covers, spine stamped in maroon & gold; a little shelfwear/ no dj. Exploration, discovery, cartography, paleohistory.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (2nd printing November) 1965. xii, 291 p., illus., facsimiles, maps (part folding); 30 cm. Contents: The Manuscript: History and Description by T. E. Marston. Facsimiles of the Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation. The Tartar Relation, Edited with introduction, Translation and Commentary by G. D. Painter. The Vinland Map, by R. A. Skelton. The Tartar Relation and the Vinland Map: an Interpretation by G. D. Painter. Very Good / dust jacket good+ with shelf wear. Stock#L423.